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Dave Santoni

Dave Santoni

Managing Director, Business Development at Audax Private Equity

Aug 5, 2026

1:39
All right, so Dave, why don't you take us a little bit further back? Can you talk about, like, where you grew up, college, first job out of college, and then what you did along your pathway to ultimately getting into private equity?
1:50
Yeah.
1:51
I was originally born in Philadelphia.
1:53
My parents were both longtime Philadelphia residents and lived in Philly until sixth grade.
2:01
My father was a lawyer and decided he wanted to become a professor, and he told my sister and I and my mother that we were gonna move to Omaha, Nebraska when I was in sixth grade.
2:12
My father ended up teaching law school at Creighton in Omaha, and I went to high school there.
2:17
Had a great life in Omaha, have one daughter that's actually at Creighton now, so it gives me a reason to go to Omaha.

19 MINS LATER

21:30
And then also, I think a lot of people are curious, how do you manage the interplay between the deal teams, the business development teams, the PE operating professionals, and then the Portco leadership team? How does that all work together?

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